The Hacks of Life

I have a lot of strong (meaning "perhaps stupid") opinions about C++ and how to use it (or not use it), and I've been meaning...

Here's a riddle: Q: Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, a Benign Race Condition and Bjarne Stroustrup each stand 100 feet away from a $10...

If you develop apps for the Mac or IOS, there may come a day when code signing fails mysteriously. When this day happens, mix in a boiling ...

There are two kinds of programmers: those that download a brand new version of X-Code on the very first day, and those that laugh at them...

The distribution of precision in the default Z buffer configuration is not ideal. Precision is distributed via a 1 / x curve. This means m...

One of the standard solutions that has emerged for physically based rendering (PBR) is to use pre-filtered mipmapped radiance environment m...

Here's some really good code: if(atomic_dec(&my_ref)==0) { StLock take_lock(&global_asset_lock); global_asset_table.e...